The Origins of the Crisis [non-ABDL]

[Yvonne]

But before we move on, let's talk a bit about the foundations and fundamentals of the Shadokian economy.

What we colloquially call the Shadokian economy, in plain English, is more precisely the exchange of goods and services on Earth between the Shadoks.

This element of the factual world is in fact ruled from the sky, and heavily depends upon the tensions actually going on in the Olympia of business !

Which is of course as everyone knows not in Olympia in Greece but at Davos in Switzerland, but I digress...

 

So once upon a time in Davos...

First there was the Queen Mother, Conjuncture, who had a daughter, Princess Crisis, that the Queen Mother had in a first marriage with King Credit.

The said Princess Crisis was an absolute little bitch with a horrendous behaviour, breaking everything, shouting everyday... etc ...

After King Credit died, the Queen Mother remarried with Lord Market, who himself had a daughter of stunning pure beauty, whose name was Princess Revival.

But her most cruel stepmother, Queen Conjuncture, held Princess Revival hostage secretly in a tower, away from public eyes ! Mostly, out of sheer envy...

The poor girl was therefore forced to repair broken things in the trail of destruction that Princess Crisis cruelly left everywhere behind her, never to see the sun !

And so of course Princess Revival never could revive the Shadokian economy, you know ? Still following me ?

 

So the Shadoks would go to the temples, praying Mother Conjuncture to be more conjunctural, burning candles for Sister Revival to revive the economy... etc ...

But indeed the poor girl couldn't actually do anything ! So it was all about the crisis, crisis upon crisis and so on and so forth...

 

And of course, the King of the Shadoks here on Earth has not changed his habits the least even though the country was in deep economical crisis :

He would still sneak into homes by the backdoor, crawling surreptitiously on the floor, to come and steal your cash hidden in the mattress for taxes !

An obnoxious policy, which of course led to a budgetary crisis... And so the folk soon wanted his head ! Which in turn led to a political crisis...

But of course with his "Hat of the King", you really would have to be dumb, or blind, or both ... To miss him out there !

 

So the King, who indeed wasn't a dimwit of any kind, had a terrific idea that he signed into a new executive order.

An ordinance establishing that the most "deserving" pater familias among the Shadoks would receive a similar "Hat of the King" !

Now, of course seeing that this hat came with tax deductions, there was no shortage of volunteers for this job !

So much so that quickly, you would not be able to know who was the King just by looking at his head like before !

And while a lot of them started to have "technical difficulties" with angry taxpayers, such as : falling down the stairs, missing crossroads, hammer problems ... etc ...

The REAL King, meanwhile ! Had put on a nightcap ! Which was much more in line with his actual deeds than his duties anyway...

 

So people with hats would target other people with hats, and people without hats would target anyone who would happen to wear a hat !

And accidents turned into incidents, and incidents turned into clashes, and clashes turned into vendettas, and vendettas turned into a full blown war...